The roll and responsibility of philosophers ect...

[filc]

Sorry if I was not suppose to start a new thread on HA.

On page 300, in Chapter XV ‘The Market’ In section 9, ‘Entrepreneurial Profits and Losses in a Progressing Economy’.

Mises writes

@Mises

It is not the business of the entrepreneurs to make people substitute sound ideologies for unsound. It rests with the philosophers to change people’s ideas and ideals. The entrepreneur serves the consumers as they are today, however wicked and ignorant.

What weight does this statement hold for the ideological side of AE, the philosophers, ect…

I see where Mises is coming from. If a society is immoral is it possible to just end up in an Orwellian nightmare as described in Orwell’s book, 1984? Or would such points really be irrelevant under a widespread anarchic establishment.

[nirgrahamUK]

@filc

I see where Mises is coming from. If a society is immoral is it possible to just end up in an Orwellian nightmare as described in Orwell’s book, 1984? Or would such points really be irrelevant under a widespread anarchic establishment.

I don’t see how it could be irrelevant… there must be a demand for justice to encourage entrepreneurs to direct supply to meet it.

[filc]

I thought there may be an ethical argument here but I may just be looking too far into it.